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“I hate to say it,” the rhythm and blues singer D’Angelo ventures toward the end of Questlove’s new documentary ... mixed-gender group Sly and the Family Stone, embodying countercultural ...
Sly and Family Stone Splinter on 'Family Affair' This was their first new song in almost two years and their third No. 1 single. What it wasn't, however, was a family affair.
He compares the Sly & the Family Stone frontman’s elusive way of hiding ... all of us agreeing that this will be the greatest selling album of all time, but each song: song one, paranoia.
The alienation of success — particularly as it relates to Black artists — is one of the themes Questlove explores in his new ... SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). The film focuses on Sly ...
But one performance in the documentary about 1969's Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial band Sly and the Family Stone in ... band's 1971 album cover for ...
Lionel Hahn/ Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria Shriver showed — in an old interview that’s central to his film — by trying to get Sly Stone to acknowledge he “blew it” in letting drugs derail his ...
Greetings! It’s your friend and selector, Marlon, again. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s joyous, crisply edited and well ...
Sly Lives! presents an unflinching portrait of the artist – and the main quandary of the creative process. By Tracey Thorn The other night Ben and I watched the new Sly Stone documentary ... Sly and ...
In his new documentary Sly ... Stone’s career, and much more in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now — including a confirmation that the long-awaited follow-up to D’Angelo’s 2014 ...
Funk trailblazer who upended rock and soul in the '60s and '70s as leader of Sly & the Family Stone.Wikipedia Questlove directs Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), a doc about Sly Stone ...